A day inside London's Metropolitan Police - BBC Newsnight

[Some viewers may find content in this video distressing.] During the coronavirus lockdown violent crime has been markedly down, but as the restrictions ease violent incidents are rising. Has the Met Police lost control of the streets? Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F

Crime levels have risen back to pre-coronavirus levels despite the continuing lockdown, a chief constable has said.

Across Wales and England, crime fell by 28% during the first weeks of lockdown.

In the capital, homicide is up 23% in the year to April - or to put it in a wider context - knife crime is now fifty one percent higher than when records began just under a decade ago.

Stop and search has doubled in the last year too. It's without doubt one of the most controversial responses to rising crime. All of this against a backdrop of renewed questions over racial justice and policing sparked by the death of George Floyd.

In an exclusive film, Newsnight’s Richard Watson went on patrol with one of the Metropolitan Police's newly formed violence suppression units.

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